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In this article, we provide an overview of the basic concepts of novel topological materials. This new class of materials developed by combining the Weyl/Dirac fermionic electron states and magnetism, provide a materials-science platform to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Vishal Bhardwaj , Ratnamala Chatterjee

Transition metal dipnictides (TMDs) have recently been identified as possible candidates to host topology protected electronic band structure. These materials belong to an isostructural family and show several exotic transport properties.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-18 Ratnadwip Singha , Arnab Pariari , Prabhat Mandal , Gaurav Kumar Gupta , Tanmoy Das

We give a self-contained and enriched review about topology properties in the rapidly growing field of topological states of matter (TSM). This review is mainly focus on the beautiful interplay of topology mathematics and condensed matter…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Chunbo Zhao

The topological properties of materials are, until now, associated with the features of their crystalline structure, although translational symmetry is not an explicit requirement of the topological phases. Recent studies of hopping models…

Topological metals continue to attract attention as novel gapless states of matter. While there by now exists an exhaustive classification of possible topologically nontrivial metallic states, their observable properties, that follow from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 A. A. Burkov

Weyl semimetals display a novel topological phase of matter where the Weyl nodes emerge in pairs of opposite chirality and can be seen as either a source or a sink of Berry curvature. The exotic effects in Weyl semimetals, such as surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-02 Davide Iaia , Guoqing Chang , Tay-Rong Chang , Jin Hu , Zhiqiang Mao , Hsin Lin , Shichao Yan , Vidya Madhavan

This chapter describes topological (Dirac and Weyl) semimetals from the viewpoint of their observable electromagnetic response. We argue that this response may be represented by topological terms with unquantized (non-integer) coefficients…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 A. A. Burkov

Two-dimensional (2D) topological materials (TMs) have attracted tremendous attention due to the promise of revolutionary devices with non-dissipative electric or spin currents. Unfortunately, the scarcity of 2D TMs holds back the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Di Wang , Feng Tang , Jialin Ji , Wenqing Zhang , Ashvin Vishwanath , Hoi Chun Po , Xiangang Wan

Novel fermionic quasiparticles with integer pseudospins in some energy bands, such as pseudospin-1 triple-point fermions, recently attract increasing interest since they are beyond the conventional spin-$1/2$ Dirac and Weyl counterparts. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-27 Xue-Ying Mai , Yan-Qing Zhu , Zhi Li , Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu

Topological quantum materials, including topological insulators and superconductors, Dirac semimetals and Weyl semimetals, have attracted much attention recently for their unique electronic structure, spin texture and physical properties.…

Chiral topological semimetals host multifold degenerate band crossing points under the protection of crystalline symmetries. In this paper, we suggest that the recently discovered chiral topological semimetals in space group 198, parts of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yingyi Huang , Shao-Kai Jian

We develop the topological band theory for systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, whose energy spectra are generally complex. After generalizing the notion of gapped band structures to the non-Hermitian case, we classify "gapped"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Huitao Shen , Bo Zhen , Liang Fu

The electronic properties of $\pi$-conjugated two-dimensional (2D) polymers near the Fermi level are determined by structural topology and chemical composition. Thus, tight-binding (TB) calculations of the corresponding fundamental network…

Transition-metal borides (TMBs) have long attracted attention of the researchers because of their unique mechanical and electrical properties including superconductivity. We have explored the structural, mechanical, electronic, optical, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-30 Razu Ahmed , Md. Sohel Rana , Md. Sajidul Islam , S. H. Naqib

The influence of recently discovered topological transition between type I and type II Weyl semi-metals on superconductivity is considered. A set of Gorkov equations for weak superconductivity in Weyl semi-metal under topological phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-29 Dingping Li , Baruch Rosenstein , B. Shapiro , I. Shapiro

Topological semimetals are gapless states of matter which have robust surface states and interesting electromagnetic responses. In this paper, we consider the electromagnetic response of gapless phases in $3+1$-dimensions with line nodes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy , Taylor L. Hughes

Topological characteristics of energy bands, such as Dirac/Weyl nodes, have attracted substantial interest in condensed matter systems as well as in classical wave systems. Among these energy bands, the type-II Dirac point is a nodal…

Topological insulators (TIs) constitute a new class of materials with unique properties resulting from the relativistic-like character and topological protection of their surface states. Theory predicts these to exhibit a rich variety of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-14 Hadar Steinberg , Dillon R. Gardner , Young S. Lee , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Combining topology and plasmonics paradigms in nanocolloidal systems may enable new means of pre-engineering desired composite material properties. Here we design and realize orientationally ordered assemblies of noble metal nanoparticles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-01 Ye Yuan , Ivan I. Smalyukh

2D materials with nontrivial energy bands are highly desirable for exploring various topological phases of matter, as low dimensionality opens unprecedented opportunities for manipulating the quantum states. Here, it is reported that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Chenqiang Hua , Si Li , Zhu-An Xu , Yi Zheng , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu